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Official Paper of Box Butte County
TWICE A WEEKTUESDAY AND FRIDAY
Official Paper of the City of Alliance
VOLUME XXIX
(Eight Pages)
ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1922.
No. 21
CHOICE OF-SITES
FOR NEW SCHOOL
UP TO CITIZ
COUNCIL AND SCHOOL BOARL
AGREE TO CHANGE.
Ready to Place New Building In the
Center of Box Butte Avenue If
No Serious Objection.
The proposal made at the last cham
ber of commerce meeting by E. D.
Mallery concerning the location of the
new school building Co be constructed
this year. Mr. Mallery suggested that
instead of placing the city's newest
and best building back of tne present
high school, and fronting on Laramie
avenue, that it be given a location at
the north end of Box Butte avenue
-similar to that of the Burlington sta
tion to the south. The school board
has expressed itself as more than will
ing to make the change, and the mem
bers of the city council have indicated
their willingness to close up Box Butte
.avenue provided there is no serious ob
jection from the residents of the city.
The new plan proposes that the new
high school building, instead of being
placed out of sight on Laramie, shall
be built in the middle of the street.
The new building is 106x84 feet, and if
centered in the street will extend some
thirty-three feet beyond on either side.
The plan does not provide for dosing
the roadway entirely, but calls for a
letour around the building.
There will be on extra expense for
the school board, for that body is plan
ring, even if the first location is
adopted, to purchase an additional
block, for a playground.
Want Opinon of Residents.
It has been suggsted that inasmuch
.as the school board and city council
are ready to act, all that is lacking is
the sentiment of the general public,
and the newspapers have been asked
to assist in getting this.- On this page
is a coupon upon which all citizens are
asked to register their sentiments,
itherfor or against, with the reasons
for the same, if they desire to go into
detail, although all that is necessary is
either ayes- or no vote. A general in
ritation to residents of the city is is
sued to fill out the coupon and mail or
bring to The Herald office. . w
Lions Club Endorse Change. .
Following a thorough discussion,
the Alliance Lions club last night en
dorsed the Box Butte location by a
vote of 16 to 4. Cub Lee Basye ob
jected to closing the street,- on the
ground that it would not only be an
end to the street and limit further
growth of the city's main thorough-
tare, but wouiu oe a narusiup ior tne
fire department and for the property
t TrC Vowi tii. r,nn.,- 'after the trial, that Schleve was inno-L-
TZl rthn cent in Intent This stand was con-
ed by the testimony of Watkins,
of the city,
7. "T h wir
ne uiiai acLri uic wi
local
yard" of the old high school.
P. E. Romig opposed the Box Butte
location, saying that it would be an
obstruction to the view.
, - m,aa ton nnn
Pa., he sa.d, had removed a ?90,000
monument from the center of the
?trV i.herTthat
ls not placed there, that part of the
city will continue to grow, an I that
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I.roperty owners tnere are enuueu u
consideration,
Roy Gregg told of a conversation
with a member of the Doane college
jrlee club, who said, before the loca
tion was even considered, that it would
be an ideal place for a big high school
l-uilding.
Calvin D. Walker endorsed the move.
Wmitrhtn. Kas.. he said, has four
school luilding3 at the end of the fourJ
principal streets, and the enect is
jemarkably good.
A. S. Mote said that so far as ob
structing the view is concerned, there
is no view at present but a row of
Funflowers, and pointed out- that the
rear of the building al?o contained an
entrance, so that it did not have a
"back" 6ide. -
E. C. Drake, B. G. Bauman and Dr.
J. H. Jeffrey endorced the proposed
change of location on the ground that
it would beautify the city.
Rev. A. J. Kearns to
Leave Alliance By
r.
the First of March
Rev. A. J. Kears, pastor of the First
Presbvterian church has received a call
f.. th Tpkamah church of his de
nomination, and will present his resig
nation to the Alliance church on Sun
day. The Tekamah church wishes him
to report for duty the first Sunday in
If. u
m- Vonrno has been pastor oT the
'Alliance church for the past three
vears. During ms posioraie, mc
church has made a most satisfactory
growth. The Tekamah church is some
what larger, having a membership of
3o0, and the position carries with it a
substantial increase in salary, as well
as a modem, new parsonage.
The resignation is dated to take ef
fect March 25, and it is probable that
xi.. Woirn'i last sermon in his present
pastorate will be given Sunday. No
plans for his successor have been con-
iiaerea. . . -
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Alliance and vicinity:
Generally fair tonight and Saturday.
Somewhat colder tonight
L 'Supreme Court Has
Long-Krause Case
Co. & Attorney Lee Basye yester
day rev ved a telegram from Omaha
attorney associatcM with him in the
Peter J. Long vs. Krause estate case,
which said that the supreme court yes
terday had declined to mandamus
Judge W. H. Westover to set aside a
temporary order restraining Long and
his attorneys from attempting to col
lect a judgment of $75,000 granted by
the Omaha district court.
This marks an important victory for
the Krause interests. Peter J. Long,
who owned a ranch in Sheridan county
containing several potash lakes, sold
this property to John Krause. Later,
Long set up the claim that Krause
knew it contained potash, and fraudu
lently concealed the fact from him.
Summons were served on Mr. Krause
while he was on a trip to Omaha, and
a jury in district court there aliowe
judgment for $75,000. Long had asked
fcr practically a million dollars dam
ages. At a hearing held at Rushville, re
cently, Judge Westover issued a tem
porary writ enjoining Long and his at
torneys from attempting to collect the
judgment. The land in question is lo
cated in Sheridan county. Long's at
torneys asked the supreme court to
mandamus Judge Westover to set
aside the injunction. The court's re;
fusal makes the next step in the case
the hearing on the permanent injunc
tion, and it will come up at the May 15
term of district court at Rushville.
SCHLEVE FREED
FROM CHARGE OF
THEFT OF AUTO
SAYS PLEA OF GUILT DUE
MISUNDERSTANDING.
TO
Many Ca on the Criminal Docket
- Hare Been Dismlssed"for,One'
Cause and Another
Attorney William Mitchell scored a
victory in district court Wednesday in ;
his defense of Feter Schleve, held
with Harold Watkins for the theft of
ago. Schleve had, like his partner,
the J. F. Snefman car some weeks :
."fo.TSk
guilty
in county
wa3
convinced,
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wno iook an me Diame ior me men
upon himself.
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I he automobile was taken on the inn
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and brought back to Al
, fc . gh . ff Mn, fi h ,eaded
. d countv court ani; were bound
- . , but ir. the man.
time Schleve changed his plea and de
manded a trial on the ground that he
had pleaded guilty because he had
been informed by the officers that he
had broken the law by merely riding
in the car.with Watkins.
County Attorney Basye. in his argu
ment, endeavored to prove that Schleve
was in company with Watkins at the
time the car was stolen and hence was
at least an accessory before the fact.
The testimony of the state tended to
prove that Schleve had arrived in Al
liance at midnight of the 8th and had,
met Watkins then and talked with him
It was also brought out that Watkins
and Schleve had been in a pool hall to
gether and had talked to Spatman's
daughters on the street the next day.
This was testified to by Charles
Blume. who claimed to have seen them
in the depot when Schleve had first
arrived, by Chief of Police Jeffers,
who hud seen them in the pool hall, and
by the two bpetman girls. Ihe state
also brought out that the car when
stolen had to be pushed about two
blocks thuough the snow and over a
wire fence which they alleged would be
(Continued on Page 8)
Alliance Scouts
Receive Loan of
Wireless Outfit
Scoutmaster B. W. Keach, City
Manager N. A. Kemmish, Mrs. Kem-
mish and Lincoln Lowry drove to
Scottsbluff yesterday and arranged
with the Scouts of that city for the
loan of their wireless equipment for a
few days. The ScotUsblutf scouts'
etiuioment will permit a roomful of
people to hear concerts and messages
without donning the steel headgear
prominent in wireless circles.
Plans are being made for a wireless
concert, which will probably be staged
Tuesday. A second concert to which
the public will be invited, is also
planned.
ALLIANCE LIONS
HEAR A TALK ON
NEW PATRIOTISM
EARL G. JONES SPEAKER AT THE
THURSDAY DINNER.
Explains the Comparatively New Con
ception by H. G. Wells of a World
Federation of States.
Earl G. Jones, editorial writer for
the Alliance Times, was the speaker
at the Thursday dinner of the Alliance
Lions club. Mr. Jones took for his
subject "The New Patriotism," and
discussed at some length H. G. Wells'
conception of a great federated world
state. The address was received with
a great degree of enthusiasm by the
club. Mr. Jones said, in part:
One of our greatest Americans of a
century or so ago, Stephen Decatur,
that brilliant naval officer of the War
of 1812, once gave a toast that has
became famous and with which we are
all familiar, when he said: "Our coun
try! In her intercourse with foreign
nations, nay she always be in the right,
but our country, right or wrong!"
With all respect to Mr. Decatur,
brilliant and dashing defender of Am
erican honor that he was, his state
ment is one that has no place in that
broader vision of a new brotherhood of
nations, which is engaging the minds
of the world's great leaders today. Mr.
Decatur, in his intense patriotism and
in his zeal to serve his country in time
of war, probably dd not stop to real
ize that no real honor could attach to
such a policw as was embodied in those
words, "My country, right or wrong!"
Now, do not . think for a moment
that I would challenge a patriotism
based on honor or on the preservation
or defense of worthy ideals. It was
for those things that our boys died in
Flanders Fields. I would not challenge
a patriotism based on righteousness,
on the fundamentals of civilization. I
would not even challenge a patriotism
based on an unselfish and just pride of
country. But the kind of patriotism I
do challenge is such as that voiced by
Mr. Decatur a patriotism which
teaches that nationalism is above just
ice and Christian brotherhood, and
that we must honor and support our
country, because It Is our country, even
though it be flagrantly in .the wronsr.
I -speak bluntly when I say. that such
patriotism, such teaching is un-Chris
tian. unethical and subversive of alii
right and justice, and that such false
standards of national honor have been
responsible, more than anything elsej
ior tne wars tnai nave arencnea tnis
worUI h) a"d ,tar3td ?r0;
ress of civilization by thousands of
ear,
Education Is Necessary.
For until nations eome to look upon
one another as true brothers: until
they become educated more and more claims are presented, they are sorted . forgotten fartemal order of the "Jolly
away from a self-centered nationalism out ami are not brought to the atten- Corks" was ilisbanded. And the Be
am! toward a new order of world tion of the commissioners. Highway nevotent and Protective Order of Elks
brotherhood; until they can bury their
differences in universal friendship and claims against the state road fund be
resnect for each other's richts. instead fore thev were presented to the com-
of hating each other with a hatred
Dorn or jealousy, ana trying to cut
each other's throats in wars of rom-
(Continued on Page 8.)
Perc Cogswejl Is
Elected President
of Retail Clothiers
liance,was elected president of the
Nebraska retail ciothers' association,
at the meeting at the Hotel Fonten-
elle, Omaha, Wednesday. Mr. Cogs
well was elected vice president at last
year's convention, and was promoted
to the highest office in the associa
tion at this year's convention.
At the Wednesday meeting of th
Rotary club, fellow Rotarians sent Mr.
Cogswell a telegram of congratulaiton
on the honor that has come to him.
CAST YOUR VOTE
OF THE NEW HIGH
Fill out this coupon, mark your preference on it, and bring or mail
to The Herald office. The city council and the school board will be
guided by public opinion, and if you have any preference, now is the
time and this is the way to make it known.
Name
Street Address
I am in favor of closing Box Butte avenue and placing the new
high school building in the center of the street.
I am not in favor of closing Box Butte avenue. I prefer the
location to the west of the present high school, or (give
location you would like to see chosen) , -
Why give reason if you desire
COUNTY USING A
NEW SYSTEM FOR
CHECKING CLAIMS
IMPOSSIBLE TO APPROVE DUPLI
CATE CLAIMS.
Commissioners Say No Money Lost by
Old System, and Very Few
Mistakes Made.
Cal L. Hashman. chairman of the
board of Box Butte county commis-1
.innar; ,ii.i u
" ; 1 . . " . ? . 1 m .
Ords for four of the last five years are
not in such shape that it will be pos
sible, without considerable labor, to
furnish the state committee investigat
ing road expenditures the information
that has been requested, is inclined to
think that The Herald's story In the
Friday issue is likely to give the wrong
impression to the taxpayers.
In its last issue, The Herald told of
the information that Jias been re
quested on the cost of building and
maintaining county roads, and
fact that in this county the law re
quiring all county roads to be num
bered and separate accounts to be kept
for each, has been disregarded. All of
the road claims allowed have been duly
filed, by years, but no systematic
record has ever been kept, and in order
to get the cost of any particular road,
it would be necessary to go through
huge stacks of claims, sort out all the
road cla'ms, and then depend largely
upon memory in order to get the in
formation. It. E. Knight, county high
way commissioner, has kept accurate
record of money spent on state roads,
but no detailed record of county roads
has ever been mad.
The commissioners, due to their sys
tem of auditing claims, have occa
sionally approved the same claim more
than once, but the error has always
been discovered. The commissioners
have not always paid claims the month
they were filed, and some creditors,
instead of Waiting, have filed new
claims every month. Mr. Hashman be
lieves there is a possibility that the
voters will jump at the conclusion that
this in a common accurrence, when in
fact it has happened very few times.
There are two or three instances
where some of these duplicate claims
have been allowed, and once or twice
they have- been paid, but, according to
Mr.,Ishman, even with duplication of
dakns. it was impossible for the coun-
ty to lose any money, as a final check
always showed the error, just as it did
onhe occasion when a personal bill of
one of the commissioners was allowed
from the bridge fund.
New Plan Followed.
Beginning with the first of 1922,
Countv Clerk Joder has installed a
claim record system, whereby every
claim against the county is listed in a
ledeer. Thus, whenever duplicate
Commissioner last year approval &HtwaH born,
missioners, and this year all claims are
audited and carefully checked by the
county clerk before they are approved.
The commissioners have been in
session during the past two or three
lav8. Commissioner Duncan is au
ent.
It would appear that the appoint
ment of R. E. Knight as highway com
missioner will continue for the present
year. "Mr. Hashman was nominated
for the office bv Commissioner Carrell,
but he declined to serve. Mr. Knight
I will, in any event, hold office until his
successor is appuimeu mn "luamroi,
February 12 To Mr. and Mrs.
James Austin, a nine-pound son.
February 15 To Mr. and Mrs. wai-
ter Becker, a daughter.
I February 15 To Mr. "and Mrs.
Lloyd M. Brady, 205 Yellowstone, a
I son.
ON THE LOCATION
SCHOOL BUILDING
Five-Year-old Boy
Not Seriously Injured
When Struck By Auto
Spencer Lucas, the five-year-old son
of Floyd Lucas .manager of the Fow
ler Lumber company, was thrown to
the pavement but not seriously injured
when struck by an automobile driven
by J. Jelinek, a fnrmer living north
east of Alliance. The accident, which
occurred in front of the postoffice
Wednesday evening, was characterized
by Mr. Lucas as very fortunate, as
it might easily .have resulted in the
death of the child.
Mr. Lucas, who was in the nostoffice
just before the accident, was hurrvinjr
nc0M t0 Newberry's hardware before
closing time, about 7 o'clock. His two
sons, Junior and Spencer, ten and five
years old, were following close behind
him. Mr. Lucas feeling that the
younger child was perfectly safe in the
company of the older, who has been
quHe used to caring for him. Mr.
Jelinek was driving down the street at
about a speed of eighteen or twenty
miles per hour and was unable to stop
until he had struck Spencer, who was
thrown iuite a distance. The car pas
sed over him, but fortunately none of
the wheels struck him. The child was
then' taken to Thiele's drug store and
revived, having nothing worse than a
few bad bruises. At present he is
said to be. perfectly well, aside from a
few sore spots.
Mr. Lucas said that he did not blame
Mr. Jelinek, for while he was exceed
ing the speed limit, this has become
such a common practice here that a
car driven according to the law was
un exception. Mr. Lucas stated that,
in his opinion 80 per cent of the cars
driven on Box Butte avenue were
driven faster than the speed supposed
ly required by the law and that
Jelinek was merely following the usual
custom. No particular blame is at
tached to anyone.
FEBRUARY 1 6 THE
ANNIVERSARY OF
THE ELKS LODGE
ORDER FOUNDED FIFTY-FOUR
YEARS AGO YESTERDAY.
On That Day. the "Jolly Corks" Dis
banded and the B. P. O. E,
Was Borrr:rxf-; -
The dawn of February 16, 1922,
marked an anniversary of keen inter
est to nearly 1,000,000 American men.
Fifty-four years ago on February
16, 1868 a little group of fourteen
men sat in a stuffy room in New York
city. Twice thev voted on a matter'
thev had been debating for weeks. On,
the second ballot, the now almost
The first membership report in the
archives of the Elks is dated December
27, 1868.
New York Lodtre No. 1. the
Mother Lodge of the order, was then
jt3 only lodge. There were 70 mem
bers on the rolls.
The fifty-fourth anniversary of the
order's birth shows a membership of
more than 818,000 Elks in more than
1,400 lodges that dot the United States
of America. At Anchorage, Alaska,
the farthest north Elk lodge htands
amid almost polar ice and snow. Elk
lodges rise at Brownsville, Texas, and
Kev We.d.. Florida farthest southern
points of the continental United
States. Our Canal Zone has its lodge
at Balboa Heights. Our island posses
sions are starred with Elk lodges at
Manila in the Philippines, at Honolulu
and Hilo in Hawaii, at Guam, and at
San Juan in Porto Rico. And the Elks
of America are working to initiate
its millionth member by July, 1122,
when the Grand Lodge meets at Atlar
tic City.
Founder Was An Actor.
The founder of this organization that
is today America's greatest fraternal
order? He was a strolling English
actor! He never lived to know how
well he and his little group of brother
actors had builded. v
His body rests today in Mount Hope
Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts, be
neath a great granite boulder bearing
a bronze plate with the inscription:
. . m i if:.,;
Xnaries Algernon oiuney vivian.
Founder of the Order of Elks. Died
March 20, 1S80. Aped 34 years. A
lover of his kind, who founded a great
order and in so doing wrought much
good."
Vivian, who was' the presiding "Jolly
Cork" at the momentous meeting in
ikfix u.Vipii thi fourteen men voted to
organize unuer uie name ui i.m.-.,
died in Leadville. Colorado, after a
l .L PII,
life of theatrical vicissitudes that
ranged from touring affluence at the
head of his own company, to being
Ktranded in Denver. There in Lead
ville his body rested, his grave marked
only by a weather-stained pine board
on which an inscription was scratched
with some sharp instrument, until on
April 28, 188t, Boston Lodge, No. 10,
B. P. O. Elks, exhumed the body, took
it to Boston, and buried it there with
tnlpniliil ceremonial.
Only in Elkdom's archives and the
memories of the few surviving "old-
(Contiaued on Page 8.)
H. W. CAMPBELL
GIVES TALK ON
DRYfARMING
PROMINENT AGRICULTURIST AT
THE IMPERIAL WEDNESDAY.
C. A. Newberry Makes Is Possible fo
Box Butte Farmers to Hear
Address by An Authority
Hardy W. Campbell, who is probably
the best authority in the lTnitd RtAtmm
on dry-farming by the summer tilling
method spoke Wednesday afternoon
betore an assemblage ot farmers at
the Imperial theatre. Mr. Campbell
who was once a farmer himself is bow
employed by the Northern and South
ern Pacific railway lines to aid their
migration departments in the develop
ing of new country for settlers. Mr.
Campbell gave as his keynote, "Our ,
plan is to increase the farmers profits
by lowering the cost per acre. Thia
can best be done by raising more per
acre at a lower cost"
Mr. Campbell was persuaded toj
come here and give a talk by C A.
Newberry, who is one of his close
friends. Mr. Newberry stood the ens
tire expense, including the cost of th
theatre and the speaker.
Mr. Campbell said that he had
started as a farmer in South Dakota.
He had had remarkable luck one yT
by fall plowing and had decided that
this was the secret of successful dry
farming, only to have conditions re
versed the next year. Finally after
years of research and experimenting,
he came to the conclusion that ' the
main thing was to plow wheo. thoj
ground was damp.
Describe Sub-Surface Packing.
He then brought up the subiect of
sub-surface packing and of how he hai
stumbled on this accidentally. A neigh',
bor of his hud been cutting across nJa
field on his way to and from work, and
in Mr. Campbell's opinion, ruining hi
seed bed which he had all prepared.
He finally stopped this man and ob
jected, refusing to allow the use of his ,
field as a roadway any more. His sur
prise was great then, when, In the face' '
of a general crop failure, the oely
green thing pn his place at the end of
the drouth was the wheat that grew
where the. ground had been packed by
.1 i rri. s j . v
me ceignoor norscs. mis u u ut
Invention of the sub-surf ace packer''
whlh f said t to of great Value.
Mr. Campbell then said that It kadi
always been a mystery to him why
the proper cultivation of the ground
and the packing of the sub-soil
brought such desirable results until he
went to California a few years ago
and was shown about a plant for the
cultivation of bacteria which were
used to jnoCulate seed for the home
Rurh clover alfalfa beana
etc., and increase yield and grewth.
He then decided and has since cen
firmed by experiments that the proper
packing and cultivation of the soil put
it in just the proper fhape for the
cultivation of bacteria. If the ground
was not loose enough too much water
escaped and it was necessary to peek
the sub-soil to exclude the air, for
while a certain amount of air is neces
sary, too much stops the growth of
these tiny organisms. Another reasoa
or loosening the top of the soil is thai
if the surface is packed the heat of the
sun cannot penetrate but instead the
cold from the deeper soil rises and re
tards the growth of the bacteria.
He also recommended the use of a
double disk directly behind the plow to
cut the surface and hold the moisture.
Farmers Hard to Convince,
Mi. Cmnbe'1 then told of the ctrug
gle he had with the farmers to per
suade them to follow his method as a
whole, for while they were willing to
to adopt part of it they objected to the
part which he has worked out in later
years, namely not to seed the ground
until rather late, in order to give the
ground time to warm up and allow fot
the growth of bacteria; and, second,
to not use too much seed. He reeonv
mended the use of about twenty
pounds of seed while he said that u
(Continued on rage o.j
"Dance of Death"
Second in Series
by Rev. M. C. Smith
The second of the series of sermons
on dancing will be delivered by the
Bev. Mearl C. Smith at the Methodist
church next Sunday night at 7:30 on
the subject, "The Dance of Death."
The subject is not original, but has
been used many times. iears ago a
book wa3 written with that title which
was read by Mrs. Gen. W. 1. Sherman,
n ml ttf ter reading-it she said: "Women
of virtue or self respect who know the
contents of that volume would blusn to
have the dance named to them." The
author of these dancing sermons has
never seen the book referred to, but
the subject has come into common use
as an epithet characterizing the harm
ful effects of the modern dance, The
sermon will picture the unfortunate
ones who do not escape the pitfalls
which the dance makes for them, and
who fall into temptation and moral
sin. "There is a way that seemeth
right unto a man, but the end thereat
are the ways of death." , .